How will semesters work?

"paradiseplanet;c-17305284" wrote:

"AquaGamer1212;c-17305220" wrote:

"paradiseplanet;c-17305217" wrote:
Regardless how it will work, the term days are fixed to 5 business days across the entire game, regardless of age length settings or calendar length. It's very restrictive imho.

It’s restrictive so you have time to manage everything. It would probably break the system if the length could be changed all willy nilly.

Then why didn't they restrict calendar lengths then, since if you change the length while the save has already generated the holidays then you'll end up with all your holidays all over the place?

Because holidays don't have the same coding that university does? Holidays are simple, with a few tasks. You don't even have to have any created holidays if you don't want to. But University has more build in coding that runs the classes, activities, etc...

It should be adjustable, 5 days is awful for my playstyle. I have my seasons set to 28 days so I can have proper holidays like xmas break for my kids and teens lasts a week and summer break I do for a few sim weeks. I was hoping I could kind of adjust the semesters more, it's very restrictive. I did see in the live stream when they were signing up for classes that it took 12 classes to finish the degree so I guess I could just take 1 or 2 classes a semester to make it take longer. I would have liked something like the seasons adjusting though. They didn't touch on that very much though so who knows it could just be a feature they overlooked.

Eh, I'm sure a modder will once again give a solution to term lengths the way we want it. :) Like always...

See a need, fill a need! (Though we shouldn't always have to rely on mods)

It's 5 days a term/semester, there are multiple terms/semesters. You have to complete 12 classes in total. So if you want to do 4 classes a term, you'll get done in 3 terms, which is 3 weeks. If you do less classes a term, that's more terms, which equals more weeks. So it is sort of adjustable, there's honestly no need to mod it. You can adjust seasons accordingly. And this is coming from someone who mods the heck out of their game.

"AquaGamer1212;c-17305306" wrote:
It's 5 days a term/semester, there are multiple terms/semesters. You have to complete 12 classes in total. So if you want to do 4 classes a term, you'll get done in 3 terms, which is 3 weeks. If you do less classes a term, that's more terms, which equals more weeks. So it is sort of adjustable, there's honestly no need to mod it. You can adjust seasons accordingly. And this is coming from someone who mods the heck out of their game.

There's a lot of things that don't necessarily need to be modded, but mods have been made for them anyway. MCCC wouldn't have even have half the content and LilMsSam wouldn't bother doing tuning mods bc a lot of those things as you say, don't need to be modded. Let people have their choices and let modders mod what they want?

"paradiseplanet;c-17305302" wrote:
Eh, I'm sure a modder will once again give a solution to term lengths the way we want it. :) Like always...

See a need, fill a need! (Though we shouldn't always have to rely on mods)

You are probably right and I think I'll wait to buy until I see something done about that aspect. You are also correct that we shouldn't have to rely on mods to make the game have more depth. There are great mods of course like McCC and Basemental that have features that could never be put into the game. Something as simple as implementing a tool to extend how long it takes your sims to finish a degree shouldn't be a mod that ever needs to be created, it should already be in the game. It's whatever though, I'll do what I have to to make that a longer experience.

"paradiseplanet;c-17305312" wrote:

"AquaGamer1212;c-17305306" wrote:
It's 5 days a term/semester, there are multiple terms/semesters. You have to complete 12 classes in total. So if you want to do 4 classes a term, you'll get done in 3 terms, which is 3 weeks. If you do less classes a term, that's more terms, which equals more weeks. So it is sort of adjustable, there's honestly no need to mod it. You can adjust seasons accordingly. And this is coming from someone who mods the heck out of their game.

There's a lot of things that don't necessarily need to be modded, but mods have been made for them anyway. MCCC wouldn't have even have half the content and LilMsSam wouldn't bother doing tuning mods bc a lot of those things as you say, don't need to be modded. Let people have their choices and let modders mod what they want?

Honestly you're just complaining to complain at this point. Modders don't need to waste their time modding things that don't need to be modded. Both of those modders have modded things in the game that NEEDED them in some sort. If you want longer Uni then take less classes each term, BOOM there's your choice. :|

Yeah I'll probably just do 3 classes a term and put seasons on 7 days.

But 5 days is really short. Not sure how you are suppose to manage a social life with all the new features with this kind of time restraint.

Hopefully classes aren't on the weekends so that if a term starts on any other day than Monday, it will technically be longer.

"LoveMcQueen5683;c-17305325" wrote:
Yeah I'll probably just do 3 classes a term and put seasons on 7 days.

But 5 days is really short. Not sure how you are suppose to manage a social life with all the new features with this kind of time restraint.

Hopefully classes aren't on the weekends so that if a term starts on any other day than Monday, it will technically be longer.

Classes are Mon-Fri, and they said if you start Uni during the weekend you'll have a little more time to get work done.

"dearie_blossom;c-17305355" wrote:
@AquaGamer1212

Sorry, but that‘s a stupid solution. Some players want an actual university experience and this includes taking multiple classes and all the stress and time management issues that comes with it. These players who have seasons set to three weeks will start university at the beginning of winter and graduate at the end of winter. What kind of nonsense is this? Being a lazy slack off student is not an alternative for longer terms. It really wouldn‘t have been difficult to let players choose the length of a term. Just throw in some „prepare presentation“, „research xyz“ and „take exam“ tasks more.

Some people really only care about the party aspect of DU and it shows. I don‘t even know why EA bothered to add rabbit hole classes. Many people would have bought a University pack with no classes or homework whatsoever.

Terms can last from 3 weeks to 12 weeks, it's up to the player how long they want Uni to be. Seasons is irrelevant because not everyone has Seasons. There also extracurriculars you can take instead of classes as well.